Girls' name · since 1958
Sheritta
Sheritta has 205 recorded births since 1958 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1981 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,579 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 205
- born since 1958
- 1980s
- peak decade
205 girls have been named Sheritta since 1958, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Sheritta has 205 recorded births among girls since 1958, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1958 to 1990.
- #19,579 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 205 born since 1958
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sheritta ranks #19,579 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 205 born since 1958, peaking in the 1980s.
- #19,579 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 205
- born since 1958
- 1980s
- peak decade
Sheritta's 205 recorded births place it above 72.93% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Sheritta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Sheritta's SSA record in two at 1978 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1963, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1981 peak of 17, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Sheritta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1958–1990
- Peak year (1981)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Sheritta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (86 births, 42% of the file).
1980s was Sheritta's strongest decade.
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Sheritta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1960s 23
1960s
23 births
- 1970s
1970s
81 births
- 1980s
1980s
86 births
- 1990s 9
1990s
9 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 86 births (42% of all-time use).
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- Sheritta's decade-level peak was the 1980s (86 total births); usage has since declined to 9 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Sheritta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~32 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1958–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Sheritta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.